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The Farmers Weekly Podcast
What Is Sustainable Intensification?
Sustainable intensification is nothing new. It's just part of the natural evolution of many centuries of plant breeding, which we mustn't forget, thet u k is a global lead on. So it's about making the best that we can with what we've got. And effectively, yields haven't gone up massively, but it could be argued that wrats using less iputs to produce the same amount of wheat. There was a study done a few years ago which said if you take those improvements away from our wheat crop in europe to day and go back to where wheat varieties were 20, 25 years ago, you know, you'd need an area the size of belg
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